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Meta's Pricey Pursuit Of AI Talent Draws Mockery From Musk

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) is shelling out staggering sums to lock in elite AI talent, signaling just how high the stakes are in Silicon Valley's AI race.

Benzinga

Trump's AI Czar Says Tech Behind Chatbots Won't Kill Jobs: 'Narrative Is Overhyped'

As debates over AI-driven job displacement intensify, Silicon Valley investor and economic commentator Balaji Srinivasan and White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks say the real story is that humans remain essential, guiding and verifying AI at both ends of the workflow.

Benzinga

Trump’s super PAC has ballooned to $200M thanks to Musk and other Silicon Valley heavyweights

Trump has held multiple fundraisers this year costing as much as seven figures for each attendee

The Independent UK

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Bay Area AI startups are turning to China’s outlawed ‘996’ work model

Some Silicon Valley startups are embracing China's outlawed "996" work culture, expecting employees to work 12-hour days, six days a week, in pursuit of hyper-productivity and global AI dominance.

Fortune

Friday essay: libertarian tech titan Peter Thiel helped make JD Vance. The Republican kingmaker’s influence is growing

The money is easy to trace. Scroll back through tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel’s political donations and you’ll soon hit US$15 million worth of transfers sent to Protect Ohio Values, JD Vance’s campaign fund. The donations, made in 2022, are a staggering contribution to an individual senate race, and helped put…

The Conversation

One of Silicon Valley’s most prominent Democrats just said the party ‘really did alienate’ a huge chunk of the tech world

“I regret this and wish it didn’t happen,” LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman said.

Fortune

Microsoft Is Paying Up To $2.4 Million For Top Tech Talent—Leaked Docs Show Amid AI Talent Arms Race

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) is paying distinguished engineers up to $2.4 million annually, according to leaked internal compensation documents, revealing the software giant’s escalating investment in top-tier technical talent amid Silicon Valley’s heated artificial intelligence hiring war.

Benzinga

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Inside the CIA-backed venture fund that helped launch Palantir and Google Earth

In-Q-Tel has brought Silicon Valley thinking to Washington’s defense establishment—and funded a host of James Bond spy gadgets.

Fortune

'All Property Becomes Cryptography:' Balaji Srinivasan Believes All Valuable Assets Will Be Powered By Blockchain One Day

Silicon Valley investor and economic commentator Balaji Srinivasan predicted that all valuable assets will be secured and managed through blockchain technology in the future.

Benzinga

Palantir, The AI Giant That Preaches US Dominance

Palantir, an American data analysis and artificial intelligence company, has emerged as Silicon Valley's latest tech darling -- one that makes no secret of its macho, America-first ethos now ascendant in Trump-era tech culture.

International Business Times

Tech giant Palantir helps the US government monitor its citizens. Its CEO wants Silicon Valley to find its moral compass

Critics of those who misuse power tend to be outsiders. So, it’s striking that Alexander Karp, co-founder and CEO of data analytics giant Palantir Technologies, has written a book, with Palantir’s head of corporate affairs Nicholas Zamiska, calling on Silicon Valley to find its moral compass.

The Conversation

Microsoft's Satya Nadella vs Alphabet's Sundar Pichai: Which Tech CEO Has the Higher Net Worth in 2025?

Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai lead two of tech's biggest giants — but who holds the higher net worth in 2025? We compare their compensation, shares, and latest valuations.

International Business Times UK

'Put America First': Trump and JD Vance Slam Tech Giants for Hiring Indian H-1B Workers Over Americans

US political figures, Donald Trump and JD Vance, criticise American tech giants. Trump condemns outsourcing and overseas hiring, while Vance targets the reliance on H-1B visas, particularly by Microsoft.

International Business Times UK

Jensen Huang Says He's Created More Billionaires Than Any CEO: 'Don't Feel Sad For Anybody At My Layer'

As the Donald Trump administration unveiled its AI policy plan, Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang joined top Silicon Valley figures to weigh in on the cutthroat battle for AI talent and compensation during a live podcast in Washington, D.C.

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Experts debate how to create a more humane AI—and save it from the ‘Silicon Valley tech bros’

“Industry really needs to be a leader in this space, but academia does, too,” said Stanford’s Russell Wald at the Fortune Brainstorm AI Singapore conference.

Benzinga

Mark Zuckerberg's 'Mafioso' Poaching Style At Meta Sparks AI Talent War — Sam Altman Says 'Bring It On'

Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) has ignited Silicon Valley’s aggressive artificial intelligence talent war through its billion-dollar hiring spree, prompting OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to welcome the competition with a defiant “bring it on” response.

Fortune

Trump’s AI agenda hands Silicon Valley the win—while ethics, safety, and ‘woke AI’ get left behind

At a Capitol Hill spectacle complete with VCs and billionaires, Trump sealed a new era of AI governance: deregulated, unapologetically pro-growth, and ethics-optional.

The Independent UK

The Latest: Trump will reveal ‘AI Action Plan’ shaped by his Silicon Valley supporters

An artificial intelligence agenda formed on the podcasts of Silicon Valley billionaires is now being set into U.S. policy as President Donald Trump leans on the ideas of the tech figures who backed his election campaign

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OpenAI faces an 'increasingly fragile moat,' JPMorgan says, as Sam Altman braces for 'OS war' against Google, Apple and other Silicon Valley titans

OpenAI has a $700 billion-plus total addressable market ahead of it, JPMorgan says as it takes the rare step of covering a private company.

The Guardian - US

Silicon Valley trades researchers like football teams poach players

Big tech is offering athlete-level pay to lure AI researchers in a high-stakes race for dominance

Benzinga

Palmer Luckey Once Brutally Bashed Silicon Valley's Obsession With Easy Cash: 'All The Money Went To Paying People To Do Things That Were A Waste Of Time'

In a conversation last year, defense tech entrepreneur Palmer Luckey criticized Silicon Valley's obsession with "easy money" ventures, saying a tighter funding environment is finally forcing founders to solve real-world problems.

The Guardian - US

Nine households control 15% of wealth in Silicon Valley as inequality widens

Report finds wealth divide widened in Silicon Valley at double the rate of the whole US over the past decade

Benzinga

Mark Zuckerberg's Wife Priscilla Chan Reveals Her Secret Weapon To Lure Top Talent To CZI — And It's Not Eight-Figure Salaries Like Her Husband Offers At Meta

Priscilla Chan says advanced GPU clusters aren't just a lure for Silicon Valley, biologists want them, too.

The Guardian - US

Silicon Valley-backed California city project pitches plan for manufacturing hub

Chief executive of ‘California Forever’ says proposal to develop site would represent ‘new home for frontier tech’

Evening Standard

How to get a £150 million job — inside Silicon Valley’s backstabbing AI talent war

Billions of pounds and shameless bonuses — the cut throat battle for artificial intelligence pros has gone berserk

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